Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

8 Mar 2021 · 3 min

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In this YouTube monologue, Nick Hutchison explains how reading Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad was the pivotal moment that led him to launch the Book Thinkers channel and become a prolific reader. He recounts being a senior college student feeling insecure about money, receiving a sales mentor’s recommendation, and quickly absorbing the book’s condensed wisdom. Hutchison highlights the book’s concise, 200‑page format and easy‑to‑digest language, describing it as an introductory guide to personal development and financial literacy. He outlines the core lessons: the contrast between poor/middle‑class and rich money mindsets, the importance of cash‑flow awareness, and the fact that financial education is largely taught at home rather than in schools. Using his own transformation—from being unable to discuss money to confidently leading such conversations—as evidence, he urges viewers, especially newcomers to personal development, to read the book as a starting point for mastering the “game of money.” He also shares his personal reading goal of 30‑40 books a year, noting he read over 80 books the previous year, and ends with a motivational call to read.

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Book Thinkers family, have you read Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki? Because if not, I would highly recommend that you check this out because this is the first book that I ever read. It's the reason that Book Thinkers exists today. I was going into my senior year of college and I was pretty distant in the classroom. I had just taken a sales internship and one of my sales mentors at the time recommended I check out this book because I was looking for a way to accelerate my learning and And what I realized was that Robert Kiyosaki condensed decades of information into days of wisdom. It only took me a couple days. I flew through this book and I realized like, hey, I can apply this to any other area in my life. I was pretty insecure at the time in conversations about money and investing, and then almost overnight, a couple days later, I was secure in leading conversations about money and investing. That's how much I learned in this book. And so I thought, What other areas of my life can I apply this to? That's how I became a book addict. That's how Book Thinkers really came to be. It was because of this book right here. It was perfect for me at the time. It was short. Let's see, it's only, I mean, roughly 200 pages. The language is very easy to digest and understand. It's almost an introduction to personal development. And I came out thinking, geez, you know, I'm going to start reading like 30 or 40 books a year. And here I am, I think I read 80-something last year. And so Book Thinkers owes a lot to this book. If you're somebody who doesn't really understand how money works, Robert Kiyosaki will tell you why. See, the poor and middle class learn money from their parents, and if you're learning poor money habits from your parents, you're going to stay poor. But the rich, the rich learn their money habits from their rich parents, and that's why the rich continue to stay rich and the poor and middle class continue to struggle in debt. See, we're not taught about money in school, so it's not all on an even playing field. We're taught about money in the home. And so by reading a book like this and learning from a rich person like Robert Kiyosaki, we can start to adopt a richer mindset. We can learn about financial literacy and the importance of understanding cash flow, how it works, where your money should come from, how it can work for you. Those are all very important lessons. So maybe you're new to personal development. Maybe you just found the Book Thinkers page. This would be a fantastic book for you to start with. I think it's a good book for everybody to start with because we are all forced to play the game of money. You might as well be good at it. And that is my message for today. Go read something. Bye.